Preaching Schedule – July 11 Through August 29, 2021
Sermon Series: Everlasting Life: Now and Forever
Focus of the Series: This six-week series examines John 6, along with a passage from Mark. John 6 begins with Jesus’s miracles of the feeding of the five thousand and walking on water, but then it becomes a much longer discourse about Jesus’s identity as the Bread of Life. The food that truly satisfies is not made from wheat or oats but is made from Jesus’s precious body and blood, and his innocent suffering and death. We often believe that what we do shows who we are, but when we receive Holy Communion (i.e., participate in the sacrificial giving and taking of Jesus’ flesh and blood), he changes us, and that causes us to do what is in his will.
July 11
John 6:1–21 – Authority and Power
Jesus demonstrates his kind of power by feeding people and walking on the
water—very different from the crowd’s earthly conceptions of power.
July 18
John 6:24–35 – Searching, Giving, and Hope
The people in John 6 are searching everywhere for life, but Jesus places it directly
in their hands.
July 25
Youth Sunday
August 1
John 6:35, 41–51 – Law and Eating
Jesus points out that no earthly food compares to the sustenance God provides.
August 8
John 6:51–58 – Sacrifice and Desire
We desperately need the sustenance of Jesus’s flesh and blood. (In Jewish
thinking, the terms “flesh and blood” constituted a reference to the sacrificial
giving and taking of life.)
August 15
John 6:56–69 – Hard Words and Trust
Jesus gives his disciples a chance to turn back, but Peter declares that they have
ingested his teachings.
August 22
RE-Creation – One Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. in Family Life Center
August 29
Mark 7:1–8, 14–15, 21–23 – Marginalization and Faithfulness
The community marginalizes the “unclean,” but Jesus works in the hearts of those
whom he chooses.